M229 - 2022 Spring Quarter Schedule

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Course Syllabus

 

  Date Lecture Topic Reading and Assignments
#1 3/29 Tue

Introduction – Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
slides

Background, p.3-28
#2 3/31 Thu Pulse Sequences – Rapid GRE
slides | notes
14.1 Gradient Echo, p.579-606
review paper
#3 4/5 Tue Pulse Sequences – RARE / Bloch Simulation MATLAB demo
slides | MATLAB scripts
16.4 RARE, p.774-801
#4 4/7 Thu Pulse Sequences – Extended Phase Graphs (EPG) / MATLAB demo
slides | MATLAB scripts (emailed)
[Homework 1] due on 4/22 Fri
review paper
#5 4/12 Tue

RF Pulse Design – Adiabatic Pulses

slides | notes

1.2 Rotating Reference Frame, p.21-28
6.2 Adiabatic Inversion Pulses, p.189-199
review paper
#6 4/14 Thu

RF Pulse Design – Excitation k-space / MATLAB Demo

slides | notes

 

Small-tip approximation
Excitation k-space paper
Bloch equation simulator

5.4 Spatial-Spectral Pulses, p.153-163

#7 4/19 Tue

Image Reconstruction – Partial k-space

slides | notes

[Homework 2]  due on 5/6 Fri 

13.4 Partial Fourier Reconstruction, p.546-557
#8 4/21 Thu Project Discussion
slides
[Project proposal] due on 5/9 Mon
[Project abstract] due on 6/3 Fri 
 
#9 4/26 Tue Fast Imaging – EPI, PROPELLER
slides
16.1 Echo Planar Imaging, p.702-739
17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.915-919
#10 4/28 Thu Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling I
slides
 
17.5 Projection Acquisition, p.897-927
17.6 Spiral, p.928-954
Spiral design code
#11 5/3 Tue Fast Imaging – Non-Cartesian Sampling II
slides
 
13.2 Gridding Reconstruction, p.506-521
13.5 Phase Difference Reconstruction, p.558-567
17.6 Spiral, p.946-952
#12 5/5 Thu Managing Motion in MRI
slides
11.5.3 Acquisition with Cardiac Triggering, p.415-418
12 Basics of Physiologic Gating, Triggering, and Monitoring, p.443-490
ISMRM Week (no lectures)
#13 5/17 Tue Image Reconstruction – Parallel Imaging
slides | note

Multi-coil Recon

SENSE

#14 5/19 Thu

Image Reconstruction – Compressed Sensing

slides | note

 
#15 5/24 Tue

Image Analysis – Deep Learning (DL) by Fatemeh Zabihollahy

slides

 
#16 5/26 Thu

Image Analysis – Challenges in Applying DL by Fatemeh Zabihollahy

slides

 
#17 5/31 Tue

Advanced Application Topic - William Hsu, Ph.D.

Towards Quantitative Analysis & Biological Insights of Disease

slides

 

#18 6/2 Thu

Advanced Application Topic - Ida Sonni, M.D.

Introduction to PET/MRI

Final Project
 

TBD

Final Project Abstract Due

 

 
 

TBD

Final Project Presentation (10 min + 10 min Q&A)